Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London Buses route 96

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The result was keep. ✗plicit 10:57, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

London Buses route 96

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Fails WP:GNG. ----Rdp060707|talk 10:21, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. Mentioned in two articles (Londonist and MyLondon) as significant as one of the relatively few London Bus routes that goes beyond the M25. Listed by ITV, a national news broadcaster, as one of the ten most crowded bus routes in London. News Shopper and London News Online ran articles focusing on changes to the route, which was over five years in the running. The route I feel this is enough to pass GNG. NemesisAT (talk) 10:46, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment since monination, I have added two additional newspaper sources. I have also added a council site from 2011 which, along with the Prime Minister's Questions ref from 2012, indicate how the issue of the re-routing was lengthy and significant. NemesisAT (talk) 11:01, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:01, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Passes WP:GNG, as ably demonstrated by NemesisAT. The article mainly needs expansion to detail the historic route 96 and its predecessor, the 696 trolleybus route. Policy WP:ATD applies, "If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page." Andrew🐉(talk) 11:16, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Reluctant Keep. I'm not keen on bus routes generally as encyclopedic, but this is certainly notable for its length and locations covered. (Also, I suspect that this "Bus 96" is the one immortalised by Gauvain Sers, though I haven't researched this.) RomanSpa (talk) 14:42, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, meets WP:GNG Toviemaix (talk) 07:58, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: passes WP:GNG Nitesh003 (talk) 12:25, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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